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...line with the World Intellectual Property Organization's Internet treaties by including provisions to ensure that copyrights on everything from movies to e-books to music are respected in the digital realm. But many in the computing community complain that the rules are too heavily weighted in industry's favor, to the detriment of research in fields like cryptography, which uses techniques like code breaking to find systemic flaws. For signs of what may come, look to the other side of the Atlantic, where the directive's U.S. counterpart, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, has spawned lawsuits involving...
...industry anachronism. Raised in Fort Worth, Texas, he arrived on the pop scene in 1975 as the guitarist in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, the backup musician who literally (at 6 ft. 7 in.) overshadowed a legend. In the '80s he became the lone Los Angeles songwriter to favor salvation over sin on a series of tough, moralistic solo albums. (Burnett and his wife, singer Sam Phillips, are devout Christians.) Burnett segued into producing and, while helming more than 40 albums for such artists as Elvis Costello and Counting Crows, became a beloved figure among musicians. When O Brother...
Critics of Orbitz focus on its unique arrangement with airlines. The website's "most-favored" clause requires all 42 participating airlines to give only Orbitz their lowest fares. But according to smaller carriers that are part of Orbitz, the website often subtly undermines that arrangement by displaying inaccurate fares for a small airline or showing a major carrier's entire fare listing first. Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways, two successful low-cost carriers, are so concerned that Orbitz is structured to favor their big competitors that neither allows tickets to be booked on Orbitz...
...owner airlines are paying the website a fee of about $14 a ticket--roughly twice as much as Travelocity charges. "Orbitz's special provisions have made the playing field for airline tickets severely uneven," says Antonella Pianalto, head of the Interactive Travel Services Association. Orbitz counters that other websites favor certain carriers by charging them lower fees...
...early media accounts of the conflict, top members of the department said they felt Summers had failed by not issuing a strong statement in favor of affirmative action at the start of his presidency...